Jack

Chapter Eight

Chapter Eight

Jack

I shouldn't have left so quickly last night but I had homework to do. My new goal, get to the bigs with the kid. Get to the bigs, get the girl, pretty straight forward plan.

The Blizzard is last in the division and we are losing attendance faster than a ten nothing blowout. They would pull the kid up, at least for a game to give the fan base hope. My goal was to keep him up there, and stay there with him.

I was up all night coming up with names and strategies for player personnel. Trust me this was not what I envisioned as a player. It seemed like I was doing more coaching than playing, but if I wanted the girl this was what I had to do.

I sent Maddie a text and told her I was ready when she was. Practice was over and I wanted to get the ball rolling, yeah I know, wrong sport. I had a line that was all young players like Eric and they could easily turn into a front line for the NEHL in a year.

The problem was I didn't know if their teams would part with them. We had one in our system, he was good, not as good as Eric, but I didn't need him to be. He was fast and I see him as a dump the puck and follow kind of player. Now I had to find the right two guys to out with him and I think I did it.

I walked into the conference room again and wasn't surprised to see Mr. Green there. He was turning into my chaperone for better or worse but I didn't care it might make this work faster.

"What have you got my boy," he asked as soon as I walked in the door.

"How about a player that is already in the system, we just need to find the right pieces to fit around him. I need a young freak with a good wrist shot and someone like me with some heft who can stand guys up going both ways. Let's find young guys and we will train them and have them ready for the next step."

"Who is our guy?" Maddie asked pulling out roster reports.

"Victor Michook, you drafted the kid last year fourth round, and he stayed in Europe. He is actually a better draft than the two above him, and with the right two players beside him, I see a first line going forward to replace the kids." I brag out.

"Why are we replacing Eric?" Maddie asked concerned.

"The kid is going to the bigs Maddie. This is my entire reason for helping put these lines together." I said not taking anything away from helping her but my goal was to be with her.

"And you are going with him?" She asked, not upset, just like she was in a need to know stage.

"That's the goal as well. For me to move on to the next stage in my life Mr. Green here has made it clear that I need to impress enough to be in the bigs." I said still giving Mr. Green a look like I was not happy with him relationship blocking me.

"Right now we all want things, and what I want is this organization to turn around and start winning. I need your twos help to do that. If this all works out we all win, and we all get what we want."

"I'll get on the phone with Michook's agent and see what we can do." Maddie said not really happy about her role.

"No, I know his agent I will make that call. You stay here and work a way to get me those two other players. We haven't a lot of time, so let's make this fast." Green said getting up and taking his cell phone out as he went into his private office.

"Here's the names of the other players that will work and even in the tandems that we will work with. If we can't get the entire grouping we need to move on. Some of these guys will not work together and we need this as smooth as we can manage, not everyone is a team player like myself." I said trying to get a smile out of her.